Alabama boob-grabber Love Guv Robert Bentley called a special session of the Alabama Legislature for August because the legislature failed to do its damn job in the spring regular session and pass a workable budget that adequately funds minimal state services, including Medicaid. The stated intention of the special session was to pass a lottery bill for consideration by the … [Read more...]

The Alabama Senate, once again meeting in an expensive special session because the Republican supermajority in the state legislature is incapable of providing minimally adequate funding for even Alabama's pitiful level of governmental services, on Friday passed Governor Robert Bentley's terrible state lottery bill. The bill, which would put most of any lottery proceeds into the … [Read more...]

In the past few weeks Strangers in a Strange Land have been quietly trying to wrap our head around the shrieking multi-car interstate pileup that is the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. We've written several articles only to delete them without publication after realizing that nothing that we write can possibly capture the enormity of the crisis -- make no … [Read more...]

Finally, after weeks of Trump's campaigning, the public was allowed to hear from Melania Trump. Why has the Republican camp kept Mrs. Trump so quiet during the Trump stump? What reasons do they have for keeping the potential first lady silent? Is it because her accent is so absolutely foreign to American ears that Trump's handlers thought it might be off-putting for Border Wall … [Read more...]

Yesterday, after a lot of hemming and hawing and indecisiveness from dictator wanna-be Donald Trump, he finally announced his choice for the vice-presidential slot on the Republican ticket, Indiana Governor Mike Pence. Trump used Twitter, his favorite outlet for his stubby-fingered typing, to announce his … [Read more...]

Johnny Norris

After a long hiatus during which most Alabama political junkies were glued to the Mike Hubbard Becomes A Convict Show, our embarrassing and now politically-irrelevant Governor, Robert Bentley, is back on the air with all-new episodes. Exciting, ain’t it? This week Alabama Political Reporter caught Bentley at the Montgomery County Courthouse heading to testify before a […]

Based on comments on social media, apparently many think that Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker gave convicted former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard a lenient sentence, because the ethics statute that Hubbard was convicted of violating carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and Walker only gave Hubbard four. Yr Stranger, happily […]

Friday Mike Hubbard appeared before Judge Jacob Walker in Circuit Court in Lee County to be sentenced on 12 felony ethics convictions. According to reporting by Alabama Political Reporter and AL.com’s John Archibald, he was sentenced to a split sentence of four years (without the possibility of parole) followed by 16 years of probation. The […]